Category: Culture
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Ancient Killer Whale Snacked on Fish, Sharks, and…Other Whales
New fossils of an ancient whale reveal what its final meal was. Jon Tennant writes.
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How School Districts Weaponize Child Protection Services Against Uncooperative Parents
Parents are increasingly required to conform to a school’s demands even if they believe such orders may not be appropriate for their child. Kerry McDonald writes.
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How Natural Birth Became Inaccessible to the Poor
As Mexico’s middle and upper classes make a fad of natural birth, traditional midwives are being threatened legally for providing the same services to the poor. Rosalynn A. Vega reports.
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Why Co-ops and Community Farms Can’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap
African American communities have difficulty circulating wealth when there is no wealth to circulate. Zenobia Jeffries Warfield writes.
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The Beauty Contest: How Cities are Shaped by What We Think Others Think, Part 2
Part 2 of Erica Barnett and Ben Klemens’ study of gentrification as a beauty contest.
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The Beauty Contest: How Cities are Shaped by What We Think Others Think, Part 1
Cities can be shaped profoundly by what we think others think. An application of game theory to gentrification in Seattle by Erica Barnett and Ben Klemens.
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How a Wooden Bench in Zimbabwe is Starting a Mental Health Revolution
In the early 2000s, when there were just two psychiatrists serving over 12 million people, Zimbabwe had to get creative to treat depression. Now, one bright idea – the Friendship Bench – is spreading far and wide.
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How Do We Know Which Historical Accounts Are True?
Why is Hebraic oral history viewed as more trustworthy than Native American oral history? Stephen Nash considers.
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The Enemy Between Us: How Inequality Erodes Our Mental Health
Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson investigate the links between individual mental health and the health of a community.
